Martha Roscon left Buckley Air Force Base Wednesday morning knowing that she would have to tell her children that their father might never come home.

Roscon’s husband, Francisco Rios, 32, was one of 120 suspected illegal immigrants detained at a construction site at the base by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

She braced herself to tell their two children – Jazmin, 8, and Irving, 11 – what happened.

“They cried,” Roscon said. “I had to tell them that their father was being arrested and probably sent to Mexico.”

She said her children were adamant – they didn’t want to go back to Mexico. “They told me I need to stay here and fight.”

Roscon drove her husband to work the day he was detained. She was questioned by ICE agents because, like Rios, she is an undocumented immigrant.

Now she faces a costly legal battle and the fact that her husband, who pulls in most of the income, is gone. She isn’t sure how she’s going to feed her kids.

“What I do is clean houses. I don’t know how I’m going to survive now,” Roscon said.

She faces a judge next week to see if she can stay in the country.

Roscon’s attorney Lourdes Rodriguez, who translated for Roscon, said she should not be deported because she’s lived in the U.S. for more than 10 years and has a child who is a citizen.

Roscon talked to Rios after the Buckley raid, saying he told her he was treated well but was forced by ICE officers to sign a deportation order. He was immediately deported and is now in Mexico with family members.

Of the 120 detained Wednesday, 98 were deported that day to Mexico, ICE regional spokesman Carl Rusnok said, and another 22 were issued notices to appear before a judge.

The raid has sparked concern and fear in the Denver area’s Latino community.

Lisa Duran, director of Rights for All People, said her group is concerned that families affected by the raid will be broken up since many include both legal and illegal immigrants.

Duran said she talked to one woman who said, “We’re in the house and we’re not leaving because we’re afraid of being picked up.”

Danielle Short, human rights program director at the American Friends Service Committee in Denver, said the raid “did nothing to address the immigration issue.”

Fernando Sergio, who hosts a show on local Spanish radio station KBNO, said he’s had a slew of phone calls from families of people arrested in the raid.

“People were wondering, ‘What is going on? Where is my husband?’ or ‘Where is my father?”‘